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Name Based Virtual Hosts on Apache on W2003

Hi folks,

I have a little experience with IIS and DNS on W2003 which I have set up on a development server at home. In my job we are now using Apache rather than IIS, and I want to change my way of working at home to reflect this.

Basically then, I have a server with 2 NIC's, I have a DNS server set up on one and Apache on the other. I am trying to set up a name based internal network and have hosts configured thus:

Forward and reverse DNS is configured for the hosts, the NIC's use static addressing and are set to query the internal DNS server first with an ISP's DNS server as a secondary source of DNS.

The NIC's are configured to listen for the IP addresses relevant to the services and sites I am hosting, Windows Firewall is also configured to allow the DNS service and HTTP/HTTPS connections.

Ping and nslookup all seem to check out correctly, replies and the correct IP address/hostname combinations are given when I run queries.

My problem is that I am not able to see the site (via standard web browser request - phptesting.mydomain.com) because of 403 errors, and I have a feeling this is to do with the way I have set up Apache (v2.2 - installed via XAMPP). Anyone have any experience with this and know what files I should edit, and how I can get W2003 DNS and Apache to serve name based virtual hosts?

The exact error I am getting is:

Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 403